Biography
Cab Calloway And His Cab Jivers
Effective period / Period of releases: 1947 - 1949
Members: Cab Calloway
Small group, made up of members of Cab Calloway's big band. Organized in 1938 around Chu Berry; when Berry died in 1941 the group disbanded, but was reformed after World War II. Neither of these incarnations recorded, but new ersions of the group made recordings in the late 1940s.See also The Cab Jivers for a small group from Calloway's orchestra, but without Calloway.